Planning: FIRE-PLAN: Social-Ecological Engineering and Design of Sustainable (SEEDS) Boreal Forest Fuel Breaks

规划：FIRE-PLAN：可持续 (SEEDS) 北方森林燃料中断的社会生态工程和设计

• 批准号: 2332346
• 负责人: Jill Johnstone
• 金额: $ 19.99万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-11-01 至 2025-10-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2332346&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; FIRE; PLAN; Social; Ecological

Wildfire is part of northern forest ecosystems, but fire activity is increasing as the summer climate gets hotter and drier. Communities in the boreal forests of the Arctic are under pressure to adapt to increasing risk from wildfires, and many are creating fuel breaks to stop fires from burning from forest lands into communities. Fuel breaks use forest harvest or thinning of trees and branches to reduce the amount of fuel in a treated area. After cutting, forests will naturally regrow fuels and repeated thinning is needed to maintain the fuel break. As an alternative, planting treatments or other management of vegetation could convert forest stands to plant communities that reduce wildfire risk over the long term. Careful planning and investment in revegetation could also create plant types that support other benefits. To identify solutions that reduce fire risk, sharing knowledge and identifying local needs and opportunities are needed. This project will use scientific and Indigenous and local knowledge to map new local solutions to reduce fire risk that also meet other community needs. Management scenarios and analysis of costs and benefits will assist communities and managers in developing customized local solutions. The project will support new innovations and planning to develop proactive and adaptive wildfire solutions for the North.The planning project will connect scientists, managers, and local people to create a network for sharing knowledge on fuel break management in northern boreal forests. Because boreal forests in the North have had little commercial forestry or agriculture, there are few resources to support local vegetation management. Efforts to manage revegetation with native plants are hindered by practical challenges related to a) local availability of native seeds for revegetation, b) identification of desired outcomes and appropriate strategies to achieve them, and c) local capacity for plant propagation. A series of network meetings will gather participants to share experiences and perspectives for fuel management, revegetation, and reduction of wildfire risk around northern communities across Alaska and Canada. The network will incorporate perspectives from science, Indigenous knowledge, and applied management to identify and communicate visions, needs, and barriers related to alternative fuel break management in the North. Core network members will summarize the shared knowledge into a public report and website that identifies common needs, resources, and benefits that can used by northern communities to meet objectives for fire risk reduction while providing other benefits.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

野火是北部森林生态系统的一部分，但是随着夏季气候变得更热和干燥，火灾活动正在增加。北极北极森林中的社区承受着适应野火风险增加的压力，许多人正在造成燃油裂变，以阻止大火从森林土地上燃烧到社区中。燃油休息使用森林收获或树木和树枝的稀疏来减少处理区域中的燃料量。切割后，森林自然会再生燃料，并且需要重复稀疏才能维持燃油中断。作为替代方案，种植治疗或其他植被管理可以将森林摊位转变为长期降低野火风险的植物社区。仔细的计划和对植被的投资也可以创造出支持其他好处的植物类型。为了识别降低火灾风险的解决方案，需要共享知识并确定当地的需求和机会。该项目将使用科学和本地知识来绘制新的本地解决方案，以减少满足其他社区需求的火灾风险。管理方案和成本和收益的分析将有助于社区和经理开发自定义的本地解决方案。该项目将支持新的创新和计划为北部开发积极主动和自适应的野火解决方案。计划项目将连接科学家，经理和当地人，以创建一个网络，以共享有关北部北方森林中燃油障碍管理的知识。由于北部的北方森林几乎没有商业林业或农业，因此几乎没有资源来支持当地的植被管理。与a）本地种子相关的实际挑战阻碍了用本地植物进行植被的努力，b）确定所需的结果和适当的策略来实现它们，c）局部植物繁殖能力。一系列的网络会议将聚集参与者，分享燃料管理，重新植被和降低阿拉斯加和加拿大北部社区周围野火风险的经验和观点。该网络将纳入科学，土著知识和应用管理的观点，以识别和传达与北部替代燃油破坏管理相关的愿景，需求和障碍。核心网络成员将将共享知识总结到公共报告和网站中，该公共报告和网站识别北部社区可以使用的共同需求，资源和利益，以实现降低火灾风险的目标，同时提供其他福利。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力和更广泛影响的评估来通过评估来获得支持的，这是值得的。